We hear a lot about ripoffs in the world of entertainment usually they get shut down by critics and fans
Pretty quickly however there have been plenty of instances in which a ripoff actually managed to succeed in its on
Originality and surpass the thing that it was actually copying. What's up guys Jimmy here welcome to chaos top tens and today
We're gonna be taking a look at and counting down 10 video games that were total ripoffs
But still managed to sell more than the original also just a disclaimer
I don't mean to say that the games on the list are bad or that you should feel bad for liking them
But you have to acknowledge that they're not exactly the original games
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Tens and now let's go over ten video game ripoffs that sold more than the game they were ripping off
Kicking off the list at number ten is candy
Crush saga, and it's one of the most successful mobile games of all time
but
the team behind this game definitely knows a thing or two about ripoffs as their first big game bubble which saga was pretty much a
Straight ripoff as well however candy crush saga blew up even bigger than bubble
Which did it was a straight ripoff of the?
classic
Bejeweled the game plays simple you just slide a bunch of different candies to the side in order match three in a row and break
As many candies as possible as you progress through the game at its peak in popularity candy crush saga had over
93
Million concurrent players as was it was generating almost half a billion dollars every
Three months I think it's safe to say that this video game ripoff was a monster success
and
Number nine we have a game called King's bounty the legend
This is a game that some of you may not actually remember
It was actually a ripoff of another game that you may not remember either
Kings bounty the legend was released in 2008 for the PC
And it featured tactical RPG elements and gameplay however if you go back and look at the Heroes of Might and Magic
Series of games it's pretty clear. Where King's bounty got its concepts from while there are a few subtle differences
It was clear that King's bounty wasn't exactly original game
Despite this the game sold pretty well was recognized as one of the best PC games of
The year while most people don't even remember the series
It was it was a ripoff and there's a lot of
Legality battles that go on behind the scenes with all these games because the more games that come out
the more will the harder it is to be
original
I'm sure plenty of you guys remember this game at number 8 The Simpsons
road rage released in 2001 road rage was a straight-up ripoff of the
Classic Crazy Taxi which was released just a year earlier at the time and led to Sega actually suing, EA
For patent infringement like I said before they get mad
You know your rip-off was a little too early
But or a little too similar to the original when the developer the original actually try to sue you over it
Okay
Road rage put you in the shoes of various Simpsons characters as they picked up other Simpsons characters and tried to drive them around
To their destination as quickly and destructively as possible despite the game
Clearly being a rip of Crazy Taxi The Simpsons road rage still sold insanely well with over five
Million copies sold and as of the recording of this video right now
We've mentioned this little ripoff Jim before on Kaos opt-ins
And it earns another spot for just how blatant it is okay a number 7
Guitar Hero now Guitar Hero is an extremely addicting music game
That was released in 2005 and it kicked off a super successful franchise
However the cause set for Guitar Hero was actually a straight ripoff of a Japanese arcade game called guitar freaks
Which featured a plastic guitar with color-coded buds for you to play along?
With the various songs the funniest part of all of this is the fact that redoctane one of the developers of Guitar Hero
actually helped develop the guitar controller
For guitar freaks making this ripoff feel it just a little more shady
Than the others on this list that the ripoff of developers was actually involved with the original
And I just wonder if there was some collusion there or something going on there you go from making the original controller
And you go to this other company
And you kind of give him the idea and the concept and God knows what else to make the new one
Seems pretty shady to me
at
Number 6. We have ninja gaiden 2004 now many people know ninja gain as the ultra-hard 3d action game
It is today
But that wasn't always the case
before 2004 ninja gaiden was actually a 2d beat-em-up platformer for the arcades like NES and Game Boy in
2004 it was time for a change and the Ninja Gaiden reboot was released which meant most of us knows Ninja Gaiden black and
Ninja Gaiden Sigma as there were different versions released for different consoles, but for the sake of the video
We're just gonna call them all Ninja Gaiden 2004 Ninja Gaiden 2004 switched the series to a 3d hack and slash with
Insane difficulty and is widely regarded as one of the hardest games of all time however
Have you ever compared Ninja Gaiden 2004 to the original Devil May Cry?
Game released in 2001 DMC really helped popularize the 3d hack and slash genre
And it shouldn't be any surprise that ninja gaiden another Japanese developed game made the switch to such a similar gameplay
after DMC's
success
Cracking into the top 5 Angry Birds another one of those most popular mobile games of all time
Angry Birds has since grown into a giant
Franchise with books TV shows cartoons and even a movie whether or not you liked them or whatever or not it doesn't matter
It's hard to deny
how addictive the original game was and it's also
Hard to deny that it was a complete ripoff of crushed the castle which was released in early 2009
Crushed the castle featured the player using a giant slingshot cannon thing to chuck various items at a structure
Challenging the player to find the perfect able to fire at their targets that sound familiar eight months later
Angry Birds was released with the identical gameplay with birds that all boasted identical powers as the
Items inked crushed the castle despite how blatant the ripoff was
Angry birds rapidly became one of the biggest apps in the world with over 2 billion
Downloads by January of 2014 isn't there only like 7 or 8 billion people on the planet so
a third roughly of them have downloaded Angry Birds
At number 4 we have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the arcade game. What are the best arcade game beat?
Em up games ever TMNT was released in 1989 and it was a smash hit
eventually being ported to pretty much every console imaginable
And is still getting digital console re-releases to this day
due to its legacy you played as any of the four turtles as you fought through a
Side-scrolling world with multiple layers in order to save April and splinter have been taken captive by the infamous
shredder and his gang while TMNT was extremely popular miss considered one of the best arcade games ever
It is hard to deny that the gameplay was a straight rip from Double Dragon 1 & 2 while TMNT
definitely featured smoother visuals and fighting mechanics the game playing concept are definitely from Double Dragon and
equally famous arcade beat-em-up series from the mid 80s at number three
I'm sure at least one of you knows why this game is on here
pac-man or mrs
Pacman whatever this pac-man is a pretty interesting story actually
after the runaway success of the original
pac-man
Namco obviously wanted to capitalize and produce a sequel however the developers were really taking their time with the production of the new game and
Namco wanted to get a new game out before the in development sequel would actually be finished
this led them to tracking down the developers of crazy Auto which was a pac-man ripoff game and
buying it from them changing the character model and simply releasing it as miss pac-man now meaning miss pac-man is actually a
Reskin of a ripoff of the original pac-man at that my friends is a slap in the face
And number two one of the most famous and legendary video games of all time many consider pong to be the birth of the industry
As a whole however people often forget that it wasn't actually the first video game in fact
It wasn't even the first video game to feature two paddles in a ball that bounced back and forth on a screen there was actually
a game simply called table tennis developed by Magnavox Odyssey
Atari took the design altered it ever so slightly and released it as pong which rapidly became a hit
So now you know that the most famous video game of all time
Was actually a rip off the entire gaming industry was built upon a ripoff
And we've reached the number one spot today, and it is garnered by
farmville released in 2009 by Zynga
Farmville became an internet sensation as it was
Constantly advertised and pushed my facebook and ended up being the most popular game on the entire site for over two years
This success only grew when it got a standalone release for mobile devices
But unfortunately farmville wasn't even the spot has been original as the game play is completely ripped off from farm town
Which had released online earlier that year it is a shame
How many mobile and online games are so blatantly ripped off?
And I'm hoping that the developers and creators of farmtown behind the scenes got paid what they were owed for Facebook and whoever
ripping this off and making so much money off of it and
There you having my friends those are ten video game ripoffs that actually sold up more than the original game
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